VOLT & VIBE | Arma Agharta and The Last 2 Brain Cells

 

Arma Agharta will present a new sound performance influenced by his experiences in India.

 

Arma Agharta is a Dadaist humour shaman and “believer” in one person, masterfully producing chaotic, status quo-breaking noise during performances. He is also a mesmerising “medium” of experimental sound art, engaging multicultural performance communities in performative, hypnotic sound ritual sessions, in which both the acoustic and corporeal liminality of the performer and the audience are intuitively embodied and equally experienced. Arma Agharta’s performances go beyond “sound in itself”: unexpected movements of the performer that go beyond the traditional systems of manifestation, improvised games, DIY “cheap magic tricks”, and the performance of A. Gečiauskas’ invention of new, non-existent “languages” conveys the principle anti-referentiality of this artist (I have never seen the “character” of A. Gečiauskas, which is pre-arranged and expressively expressed during the performance, with its readymade “innards”, as it is intended for him). Arma Agharta has been very active in Lithuanian and foreign alternative performance culture scenes for more than two decades. Armantas is not only an “orchestra man”, but also the founder of the alternative audio publishing company (audio cassette label and store) Tapekiosk, a “brand” of unmistakable aesthetics, and an excellent manager (according to the artist’s website, since 2007 he has performed close to 600 times on different continents around the world).

 

Last 2 Brain Cells is a duo of Matas Samulionis and Klaudia Indriliūnaitė.

 

How many cells are in the last brain cells? Are they two separate cells? Or are they living collections full of cells? Sounds like drumsticks, but a band without percussion. A no-brainer performance to warm up the audience of composer and comedian Arma Agharta. Even though it is our audience. You are our audience. A constantly changing and always the same sounds, mostly encouraging you to lose track of time, electroacoustic (the spam, not the word) experiential (the same) performance. improvised improvisation with improvised improvisation tools. Here’s what’s in store. What will be, nobody knows yet.

 

Tickets at the door: €7 (€5 for students).